Michael Collins 1903 On their lips are legends Telling of heroes straddling Glens and lakes of the island . Halls ring with votive song . The haughty woman has ceased to mourn , And the maiden turns back from the shore .
This book includes selection from Ouyang Yu’s poetic work, published or unpublished, for more than a decade straddling the 20th century and the first part of the 21st century, in work such as Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (1997), Two ...
Le bras que l'on soulève et le bras que l'on tourne Ne sont d'un même instant que pour nos lourdes têtes, Mais rejetés ces draps de verdure et de boue Il ne reste qu'un feu du royaume de mort. La jambe démeublée où le grand vent pénètre ...
They seem to exist because of some pressure to respond, not because of a facility for language alone. This is a rare quality among poets.
For Duhig fans, the book will offer a mesmerising retrospective of the career one of our most highly regarded poets; for those yet to discover him, New and Selected Poems represents a marvellous introduction to a radical social conscience, ...
They seem to exist because of some pressure to respond, not because of a facility for language alone. This is a rare quality among poets. The commitment to it is as hard-won, and real, as any you are likely to find in poetry.
This collection is a treasury of the very best of his writing over the years and is sure to delight younger readers as well as his established followers.
One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with...
This title provides a comprehensive selection, covering a period of 40 years, of the poetic writings of France's greatest living poet.
By the third verse, morning smog had shut off the sun, and in the swirling mist the demon rose, Darwin's great beast rose before us, scarlet with abominations—Satan passed his hand over the boy's sick faith: cold settled in his limbs.
A volume that introduces Jennifer Clement's poetry to an audience more familiar with her prize-winning fiction.
This collection presents thirty-two new poems an entire volume in itself along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One.This graceful volume, designed to be paired with New ...
This is definitely a volume worth having, for layman and French specialist alike."—Hilary Davies, Times Literary Supplement "Anyone not familiar with Bonnefoy's work will benefit from the background information and explanations given by ...
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION Dennis O'Driscoll is among the finest and most popular poets of his generation. New and Selected Poems shows him to be a poet of humanity...
This essential volume draws from each of Howe’s four previous collections—including What the Living Do (1997), a haunting archive of personal loss, and the National Book Award–longlisted Magdalene (2017), a spiritual and sensual ...